The Home Secretary said he had had an opportunity of saying goodbye to Captain Morris, and that the retiring officer had reminded him that he, Sir Samuel, had been Chairman of the Fire Brigade Committee of ti: London County Council, which had first appointed him, Sir Samuel Hdare added that it was interesting to recall that the combined ares of the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of that committee in 1908 were 50 years, and he expressed the wish, in an aside, that youth was taking as active a part in affairs now as. in those. days—Wireless. through Reuter,
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